Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Matt Zimmer of Wheatfield tp., was in the city cn business Tuesday. Wanted—To sell the hardware and lumber we have. Lee, at McCoysburg. Mrs. J. F. Rank of Chicago, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. J. F. Irwin. ing a new corn crib 24x60 near their elevator. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Bartoo and Miss Opal Sharp went to Chicago Wednesday to take in “Ben Hur.” Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Makeever of Denver, Colo., returned home Saturday after two weeks visit with relatives here. '•- X S. H. Howe of Thawville, 111,, has purchased Derby Bros. 352| acre farm in Hanging Grove, tp., consideration $23,395. Albert Nichols of Jennings county, who has been visiting friends in this vicinity for the past two months, returns home today. ■ John Pearson of Hanging Grove, tp., has traded his 280 acre farm to George Cottingham of Fairbury, 111, for a 160 acre farm near Wolcott. Mrs. James Yeoman and Mrs. Joseph Yeoman are this' week visiting Mrs. H. E. Wade at Hammond, and Mrs. Charles Yeoman at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. W asson returned a few days ago from a visit with their daughter, Mrs. A. S. Nowels, at Geneva, Ind., and also at other points. Mrs. Peter Scallen of Lafayette, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hordeman, Sr , west of town for several weeks, returned home Monday. The Democrat has a nice lot of items from West Jordan this week. We hope the correspondent will favor our readers each week with news from that quarter of the county. Elmer Medworth is home from Chicago for a short time, nursing a sore arm. He got it cut quite badly on a circle saw in the factory in whicn he is working in the Windy City. The Democrat readers would like to hear from the Egypt (Jordan tp.)correspondent whom we requested some time ago to furnish items from that neighborhood. Can it be the brothers have cast our “Joseph" into a pit? Charley Kelley came down from Rockford, 111., Sunday to spend the week with his mother. Mrs. Agnes Kelley. He expects to leave about next Monday for Colorado Springs, Colo., where his brother Chase, is attending school, and where he hns secured a position in the laundry department of the Antler hotel, one of the largest hostelries in Colorado. If you are not already a reader of The Democrat we invite you to become one. No difference what your political preferences art*, you will find more real county news in its columns than all other papers published in the county combined, and its subscription price is no more than any one of the others. This is no idle boast, but a fact which every fair-minded man must admit. It will do you good even though you may not be a democrat. Try it and see. E. P. Honan has lately become a bloated land owner, having purchased of W. B. Austin the 80acre tract in Baikley tp., known as the Norman eighty. Ed does not intend to farm the land himself, howeyer. at least not yet, but will sell it again if be can get his price for it. Otherwise he will probably fit up asummer residence on the tract and flee to the fastness of blooming Barkley for a few weeks each summer to escape the heat and dust of the city, Mr. Lawrence Kellner, of Carpenter tp., and Miss Anna Gallagher were married at the home of the bride in Jennings county, Tuesday last. Miss Christina Hildebrand of this city, attended the wedding as one of the bridesmaids The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Gallagher, former residents of Carpenter tp., while the groom is tho son of John Kellner of the same neighborhood. They will reside upon the farm formerly occupied by Mr. Gallagher in Carpenter tp.